A look into Companhia de Saneamento Basico do Estado de Sao Paulo. ADR (SBS)’s deeper side

With 0.59 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.0 million shares. During the session, the Utilities – Regulated Water company that operates in wider Utilities sector, reached to the highest price of $16.91 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $16.634. The 52-week range on SBS shows that it touched its highest point at $18.36 and its lowest point at $13.03 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $22.18. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.17.

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Price Performance and Earnings:

Three-month performance dropped to -3.92% while six-month performance rose 15.83%. The stock gained 28.46% in the past year, while it has gained 12.85% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for SBS yields 2.55 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.15. For the next quarter, that number is 0.36. This implies an EPS growth rate of 4.68% for this year and 5.86% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 27.45% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -1.87%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 683.51 million SBS shares are outstanding with a float of 683.42 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-31, short shares totaled 6.59 million, which was 95.999995 higher than short shares on 1727654400. In addition to Mr. Carlos Augusto Leone Piani C.F.A. as the firm’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Daniel Szlak serves as its CFO, Investor Relations Officer & Member of Executive Board.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.1108 of SBS’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.

An Overview of Recent Financials:

Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-09-30, SBS reported revenue of $14996842000.0 and operating income of $9849409000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $10502943000.0 and diluted EPS was $8.94.

Analysts Ratings:

In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With SBS analysts setting a high price target of 24.5 and a low target of 18.5, the average target price over the next 12 months is 22.2525. Based on these targets, SBS could surge 44.97% to reach the target high and rise by 9.47% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 31.67% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $5.63013 being high and $4.97328 being low. For SBS, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $5.3017.